Nearly 1.8 billion people in South Asia will face extreme heat risks by 2030, but market failures and income constraints are forcing them to rely on basic adaptation measures, a World Bank report said on June 3, 2025. Temperature projections show that by 2030, approximately 89 per cent of South Asia’s population will face extreme heat risks. In 2021, an average of six hours a day were too hot to safely work outside in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. That is expected to rise to seven or eight hours a day by 2050. More than 60 per cent of households and firms surveyed have experienced extreme weather in the last five years, and more than 75 per cent expect it for the next decade.

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